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Thank you for visiting our web page today. It is our sincere prayer that as you browse our pages, you will find God's presence here - that your life will be spiritually enriched.

It is our desire that everyone accept Jesus Christ as his/her personal Lord and Savior, and experience His love, joy, peace, and forgiveness. We hope our church and web site has an atmosphere where you can experience the hope, healing, and acceptance that comes from God who cares for us.

W. Floyd Bresee has devoted his life to the Seventh-day Adventist church.  He is a well known pastor, guest speaker, teacher, writer and evangelist.  It has been said that he brings to each of these roles wisdom, and an abililty to bring people of diversity together.

He has served in many pastoral and evangelistic appointments, and as the General Conference Ministerial head, representing the Seventh-day Adventist Church in 61 countries.  Bresee is also devoted to education.  He served for many years in the Seventh-day Adventist schools as a boy's dean, Bible teacher and pastor, and professor of religion.

Bresee graduated from Walla Walla College in 1949 with a degree in theology.  He received a master's degree in speech from the State University of California in 1963 and a doctoral degree in speech education for Northwestern University and Garrett Seminary in 1971.

Bresee has published many article and book including: Happy Homes, Minister's Manual, Elder's Handbook, Pastoral Ministry and Lay Preaching.

Oregon Conference News

Maputo Musings - Chp 29, Part 2 Friday, May 9, 2008 I mustn't forget to tell you about the two special volunteer groups who served here in March.

Gladstone Camp Meeting Speakers Tuesday, April 8, 2008 Miroslav Kis, Robert Folkenberg,Don Livesay, Dan Searns, Chris Oberg, Kurt Johnson and Doug Batchelor, Dave Thomas, Skip McCarty, Greg Brothers, Dave Allen, Willie & Elaine Oliver, Cory Jewell Jensen, Rick Johnson, Don Hall...

Adventist News Network News

Church bonds strengthened, members remember after disaster Friday, April 25, 2008 Carolina Hernandez Cruz doesn't go to school anymore. She's suffering post-traumatic stress after losing her father and two sisters in a landslide during last year's flooding in Southeast Mexico, one of the worst disasters in the nation's history.	West Indies: Adventists call for a ban on smoking in public places Friday, April 25, 2008 Seventh-day Adventists are lobbying to snuff out smoking in public places throughout the Caribbean islands.
Adventists among survivors of Congo plane crash Friday, April 25, 2008 A Seventh-day Adventist missionary family survived a plane crash yesterday, emerging from the wreckage just moments before it exploded.	Adventists join world faith, aid agency leaders against poverty Friday, April 25, 2008 Linking poverty to economically fettered women, world faith, aid agency and government representatives said April 13 that it's no coincidence an estimated 70 percent of the 1.2 billion people who subsist on just US$1 a day are women and girls.

Bible Says

"Bread of Life" At a young age, I learned to make bread by watching Aunt Chepa on those cold Chilean winters. We would arrive at her home and the sweet aroma of the milk-diluted yeast would guide us to her roomy kitchen. She would say that...	Out of Our Element When the neighbors are away, their German shepherd stays in their basement, accessing the outdoors through her own special door. Each evening we come to play with her, feed her, and shut her in for the night. Each morning, we...
Holy Ground Whatever happened to holiness? That may sound like a strange question to you. But, then, maybe it doesn't sound strange at all. Maybe you, like me, have wondered that very thing.	Put the Gavel Down As the little red truck rolled slowly down our drive, I turned away and sighed. Had I just lost a few hundred dollars? I wondered. I had placed an ad for a loveseat I hoped to sell. An older couple arrived to look at it in...